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{SPEAKER name = Maulana Karenga} Creating joy up and down the aisles of all my longing. You are a necessary natural good.

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The way the world would be if the pursuit of profit hadn't perverted its promise and coldly raped it in the rain and rage of evil dreams. Your seasons always softness.

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Sun warm and rich in gentle rain. Your breaths are breezes that blow slower, softer, or fast, or heavy depending on what we be doing. Sun is soft too.

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Is the tone and texture of your voice in the music you make when we rise in the rainbow. Your eyes sparkle with love and sunlight. Sometimes with dewdrops of joy or pain from too much tenderness.

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And is this, your beauty now our battles for new day and way to live that gives me promise and proof that there is more to this world than the daily mutilation necessary for money.

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More than the fantasized fear of the cave made in love more than poor pimp dreams that grow between the legs of loneliness, fear, and deforming itself as hate and more than magazines thigh thoughts that whistle and whiz through their head like a nasty wind, throwing its march weight around.

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These are notes I needed to write as a reminder, cause even now blue feathered vultures and bad vibes are walking through my window and I don't want to ignite struggle, make me too mean to remember and smile when you transform my world with your warm[warmth?] in the morning.

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{SPEAKER name = Edris Makward?}
That is a beautiful dialogue.
{SPEAKER name = Maulana Karenga}
Thank you very much
{SPEAKER name = Edris Makward?}
And it looks like you are talking to all of us.


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{SPEAKER name = Brooks B. Robinson}
You have been listening to the literary corner Black writers of the world. A series of analyses and interpretations of Black world literature. Our guest has been Dr. Ron Karenga, of the United States National University in San Diego, California. He was interviewed by our regulans, Professors Edris Makward and Sarah Fabio. Our operator has been Bob Chan and I’m Brooks Robinson. The Literary Corner was made possible by our funds from (—-)